This week, inspired by Texas State’s very own Digital Media Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, we’re calling all makers, builders, creators and founders. SXSW, in all its iterations, has always embodied the entrepreneurial spirit and celebrated the self-starter. As comfort with digital intricacies becomes less a technologist trait and more an essential business skill, digital entrepreneurship has […]
Dawn of the Harvest It only has taken us 214 years since Giuseppe Piazzi spotted the asteroid Ceres, but if everything goes correctly Friday, the Dawn space craft will enter in to orbit around Ceres. The space craft launched in 2007 and spent part of 2011 and 2012 around the asteroid Vista, a smaller […]
Silicon Valley is not only a beacon of innovation within the American technology scene. Many of its most successful ventures have begun in the hands of international entrepreneurs who have made the Valley their second home in order to give their companies the best chance at success. But as prices soar and innovation becomes a […]
“My motivation was to change the world.” Dr. Paul Bunje has studied the life in the planet’s great oceans for many years. He has also done work on arguably the greatest challenge of our time, the issue of climate change. Now at XPRIZE he is heading up the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health Competition, geared towards […]
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! This week saw the beginning of the Year of the Sheep. Mark Zuckerberg welcomed the new year with a video post in, what Business Insider calls, “vastly improved” Mandarin Chinese. Post by Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, Tech Crunch reports that our friends at Buzzfeed have ventured further into mobile territory this […]
Dr. Jason Jerald will be speaking at the panel Suspension of Disbelief in Virtual Reality at SXSWi. He will cover what is most interesting about virtual reality and augmented reality: its potential. Virtual reality is about transcending time and space by going other places and seeing and feeling other things that are wholly outside the […]
After last year’s success creating a crowdfunding bill of rights for donors, David Neff, digital engagement strategist, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and co-panelist Miriam Kagan, senior principal, Kimbia, return to SXSW Interactive this year to create a crowdfunding bill of rights for nonprofits. While last year’s panel focused on the rights of the people who donate to […]